... "Los Pescados" is just Spanish for "the fish" (plural).

Of course, if the object was not fish related, I could see how it raised suspicion. I never got that pack, so I wouldn't know.

Not a single marriage to a foreign sim has taken place in my game, ever.

This. Your game a splode.

I had the same problem every time a household went to leave Egypt, even after reverting to a pre-vacation save and sending them there at a later time. The only fix was to pack up the family and move them to a new save.

I don't know enough to answer that. One of my sims did have a quest to bring back a crocodile from Egypt and then another in France with the same objective, which sort of sounds like what happened in your game, but a sample size of two doesn't tell anyone much of anything.

saraswati, I had the same problem, except it was every time a household attempted to go home from Egypt. The only way I was able to fix it was to revert to a save from before they left home and move them to a new neighborhood, so I'd definitely go with impending BFBVFS.

Your attempt to be clever might have gone better had you realized that he wants to continue using a single save, and what he's trying to do doesn't require two saves. Instead, you just look dumb.

Having them set to sacred should be making the story progression ignore them. If it isn't, you're doing something wrong. The PerfGain options do exactly what they say, there's nothing mysterious about them.

No matter how many notices in any given format are forced upon the user, some people are still going to be brainless morons and completely ignore them.

There really isn't any reason to NOT patch for that long.

On the subject of weirdness with the martial arts uniform, I got annoyed by the inability to change a sim's hair for the uniform to a custom one and did some poking around to figure out what the deal is.

As far as I can tell, everything but the clothing on the sim is inherited by the uniform upon learning the skill and changing to it for the first time. I haven't found a way to modify accessories at all, and while you can edit stuff with Change Appearance, your options are severely limited. It seems that only a handful of hair styles are flagged as usable by the uniform. No makeup, no eyebrows, no facial hair. Delphy's CTU doesn't have support for any WA-related stuff yet so you're either going to have to use CTU to set the category as All, or do some hex editing with the content's CASP file. The flag for the uniform is 0x00000080, and you can get the current flags from CTU's Part Details tab.

(Edited for other info on how to fix it)

I completely failed to list my MATY name in the Paypal comment field. Do I just PM that info to Pescado as indicated in older threads?

Continuing the stupidity, how exactly does the title thing work? I'm under the impression that you claim them the next time a drive is open, but I'm not entirely sure. If it's a simple issue of SEARCH MOAR, then I'll go do that.

Hm. Got thrown off by some of the information I pulled up, I guess. If it's hosted in the US, you could probably go straight to the host about it, they tend to have rules in place about what they allow people to upload.

A whois on her domain name shows that she is indeed in China, looks like her site is hosted there as well. Even if Wes did have the resources to go after her... yeah, good luck with that one.

I don't even really see a point to what the OP is wanting such a mod for. Like Motoki said, sims just aren't all that smart. Their AI does a LOT of really dumb things. You gain nothing from having the game continue to run while you're not there, it pretty much just adds to the time played (and household funds, if you want moar money that bad just use a cheat). They are not like the norns from Creatures, you aren't letting it run undirected to sift out the ones with the best genetics/survival behavior/etc. because that stuff simply does not exist in any of the Sims games. It's completely pointless and is likely to result in them doing something completely dumb.

Hell, what tides is pining for isn't even partially as useful as taping your A button down in the Lethe River area of FF6 with the menu set to remember commands, which loops you through a portion of the map endlessly and farms exp till you either untape the button or something bad happens and you die.

Tried this, have yet to see the books show up in the bookstore's stock. Currently have AwesomeMod installed, figured I was doing something wrong and got sidetracked before testing on a new game without AM.

Yup, although it's ctrl instead of shift.

I had a bit of confusion when getting that set up with my card (9500GT I think, can't check now), I could only get it to configure the LAUNCHER instead of the actual game exe. Hitting Add and selecting TS3.exe didn't add a new entry, just kept the launcher selected. The remove button for the launcher was grayed out, so I couldn't even try to remove it. I changed the anisotropic filtering for the launcher to see if that even did anything, and it seemed to actually be affecting the game despite having the wrong exe selected. Textures didn't look like crap when viewed from a short distance away, and the hideous seams along model edges went away. (They also showed up in World of Warcraft, they're actually really hard to catch a proper image of and look a LOT worse than this example.)
Then when I ran the game again later, the hideousness was back. :\ No idea what I need to do to make it stick, nor any way to get the correct exe selected in my card's control panel. (WoW, on the other hand, has retained its non-crappiness. No more holes in things at the center of the mesh.)

Sorry guys, but you can only take over the world during business hours.

Patterns aren't stored in vector format, they're plain old raster images.

The completely backwards progression being made with customization infuriates me, no doubt about it. Not being able to do neat eye textures or have skins that aren't just some pre-set tone is sad, I could even do that in TS1 if I took the time to make all the images for them.

Just went to check and see, the one sim who had the stuck moodlet no longer has the problem. Figures. I'll give resetsim a try next time I run into it.

I've had the same show up with a pair of adults, and it happened at the same time their stereos started bugging out. I'd attribute the perma-moodlet to a bug rather than an intended effect. One of them eventually stopped having it permanently, I haven't been able to figure out how.